Marcel Legros - Play the Game of Life

I am sure you are familiar with the story of filling a jar with golf balls, and it looking full, then putting pebbles in it, and it looking full, then on to sand, and finally a liquid, and trying to decide when it is full. There are many things you can learn from this, but I like to think that the golf balls represent the good things in your life, and if you don’t put them in first, they will never fit in the jar. The same goes for your life, if you don’t plan on putting the good things into your life first, they will never happen, they will be replaced by the small stuff.
Live Life.

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Those that do, do, those that don’t, don’t.

If you want to be more effective in whatever you do, you need to be taking action, moving, doing. Those people that focus on the negatives, and generate lots of reasons for not doing things, end up not doing much and their success is limited.

People that are proactive and are always looking for ways to move their projects ahead, tend to accomplish a lot, and their number of successes is higher for the doers, than for the don’ters.

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When you don’t feel like working, ask yourself what your competition is doing right now. Chances are that you will think of them working in some way, and you are probably right. Put yourself in a position, so that when you think of the competition, you think of them as still in bed, while you are our working, preparing, training. You need to work harder, smarter and longer than your competition, if you want to beat them. Get up earlier, stay up later, and stay focused on beating your competition. And you will.

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If your rate of change is less than the rate of change for the world, you are headed for obsolescence. You must change at least at the same rate as the world, or you are falling behind. You must constantly update your current knowledge and gain new knowledge, or those who know more than you, will leave you behind. Be learning constantly, and improving your skills, and you will always be in demand.

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It’s a good thing you didn’t get what you wanted. In this world, everything really does happen for the best, and what happened, even if it not what you wanted, is the best thing that could have ever happened to you. When one door closes for you, another door opens and it is up to you to find that other door, open it and find out why it was the best thing that ever happened to you. Work at finding the good among the bad, picking up the pieces and going on with your life, by taking the set back and turning it into something positive.

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If you want to grow, put yourself at risk every day. These risks do not have to be big risks; smaller scale risks will work just fine. Things like talking to someone new, reading something your wouldn’t normally read, etc. The only criteria is that should be something you felt a little uncomfortable doing and has the possibility, of leading to some new knowledge or experience. If you try something you were afraid to try, you will build your self-confidence, while gaining new information; you can use to work towards your goals.

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Each day the media floods us with bad news, because bad news sells, and those of us looking for good news are in the minority. So you have to be your own TV show, your own newspaper, etc. Keep you eyes open for positive, uplifting stories, so all the bad news people want us to hear, doesn’t carry you away. You will keep your spirits up and be able to stay motivated to accomplish the things you want to in this life. Cut down on the amount of news you take in, particularly first thing in the morning, or just before you go to bed. The news in newspapers, on radio and television, etc, tends to be negative and is probably things you can’t control anyway. Negative news of this type, saps your energy, makes you nervous, etc, and rarely has any positive use. So to keep your morale and productivity up, limit the amount of news you take in during the course of the day.

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Look at something you think you can’t do and ask yourself if someone else told you, you can’t do it, or if you told yourself you can’t do it. Most of our limitations are self-imposed, and we don’t even realize it. Look for things you can’t do and take another look at why you can’t do them, and ask why. Better yet, try them, what is the worst that can happen? So stop letting you hold yourself back and do things you thought you couldn’t do.

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When something aggravating, such as a siren, car alarm, etc, bothers you, that is a good time to check to see if what you were doing at that moment, was something that will take you away from your aggravations and towards your goals. So the next time something aggravates you, use that as a check to see if you actions are going in the right direction, or not. In that way, life’s aggravations can become good reminders to stay on the course towards a better life.

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Know the reason you have a goal and keep reminding yourself of those reasons. Having a goal is great, but what you really want to have is the reasons you want the goal. The reasons will give you the fuel to survive the setbacks that are bound to happen. Develop the reasons why you want to accomplish, what you want to accomplish. This will give you the discipline and desire to accomplish what you want.

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